Miranda Julys debutroman The First Bad Man(Canongate) är självskriven på många listor. Det enda man kan säga med säkerhet är att det inte är en konventionell roman och relationer och sex. A M Homes blurb: ””The First Bad Man brings together all of July’s talents – it’s a book that must be read, a book that must be purchased – in duplicate – one for you, one for a friend. Don’t think you can loan this book – you’ll never get it back” (januari)

Paul Beattys The Sellout(Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Skriver Flavorwire: ”This novel about ‘a young man’s isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court’ may end up being the smartest, funniest, and most important novel of 2015. From what I’m hearing, it’s clearly a contender for a novel of the year.” (mars)

Nell Zink kommer ut med sin andra roman, Mislaid (Ecco), skrev en av förra årets mest spännande debutböcker, The Wallcreeper, Flavorwire tycker att det var den bästa debutromanen 2014 och en av de bästa amerikanska romanerna, rätt och slätt. ”But it felt rushed, almost hurried, mostly in a blissful, exhilarating way, but also in the manner of a first novel. As if by magic, her follow-up is already here, and it suggests a writer who has long been at work on her fiction. The novel sounds epic, and it promises to lay bare ‘all of our assumptions about race and racism, sexuality and desire.'” (maj)

The Making of Zombie Wars(Farrar, Straus and Giroux) är Aleksandar Hemons första roman sedan The Lazarus Project, som för sju år sedan tävlade om att vinna ett National Book Award. Skriver Flavorwire: ”Frankly this novel about an amateur screenwriter sounds weird and perhaps not at all good, but in the hands of Hemon, one of our best writers, it could be excellent.” (maj)

Breezeway (Ecco) av John Ashbery kommer ut i maj. Flavorwire: ”Ashbery is arguably our greatest living poet. And here we have a new collection. What more do you need to know?”

Turning into Dwelling(Graywolf) av Christopher Gilbert kommer ut i juli. Flavorwire: ”Christopher Gilbert, who passed away in 2007, was little known by casual readers of American literature, but his 1984 Across the Mutual Landscape is a beloved work for many poets and committed readers of American poetry. In July, Graywolf will release this collection of Gilbert’s work, and I suspect that his reassessment will lead to a substantially larger following.”

Landmarks(Hamish Hamilton) av Robert Macfarlane kommer ut i mars. Ur förlagsreklamen: ”Landmarks is about the power of language to shape our sense of place. It is a field guide to the literature of nature, and a glossary containing thousands of remarkable words used in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales to describe land, nature and weather.”

Intelligent Sentient?(Drawn & Quarterly) av Luke Ramsey kommer ut i februari och verkar vara något utöver det vanliga. Enligt förlaget är boken ”a loosely-told narrative of existential crisis with delicate, complex drawings – it’s like an artifact from another time.” De skriver också: ”The drawings contain the fine detail of a watchmaker and the visual scope of a social reform muralist. This book is meant to be read forward and backward and returned to and treated like a mystical text.”

Hall of Small Mammals(Riverhead) av Thomas Pierce har kommit ut. The Millions beskrivning: ”Pierce’s stories are reminiscent of the work of Laura van den Berg: his fiction exists in a space that’s just slightly offset from reality, not quite surrealism but not quite realism either. A woman admits to her boyfriend that she’s married to another man, but only in her dreams; in dreams she and her husband live out an ordinary domestic life. A man who works for a sinister television show that clones extinct animals delivers a miniature woolly mammoth to his mother. Pierce’s stories are beautifully written and suffused with mystery.” (Emily)

Lucky Alan: And Other Stories (Doubleday) av Jonathan Lethem kommer ut i februari. The Millions beskrivning: ”From forgotten comic book characters stuck on a desert island to a father having his midlife crisis at SeaWorld, the nine stories in this collection explore everything from the quotidian to the absurd, all with Lethem’s signature humor, nuance, and pathos.” (Tess)

Find Me (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)avLaura van den Berg kommer ut i februari. Det här är Bergs debutroman och av förlagsreklamen att döma är det en udda postapokalyptisk historia. En egendomlig demenssjukdom sveper fram över Amerika, men romanens huvudperson, Joy, är immun. Hon ger sig iväg på en resa ”from Kansas to Florida, where she believes she can find her birth mother, the woman who abandoned her as a child. On the road in a devastated America, she encounters mysterious companions, cities turned strange, and one very eerie house. As Joy closes in on Florida, she must confront her own damaged memory and the secrets she has been keeping from herself.”

Get In Trouble (Random House) av Kelly Link kommer ut i februari. Förlagets beskrivning: ”She has been hailed by Michael Chabon as ‘the most darkly playful voice in American fiction’ and by Neil Gaiman as ‘a national treasure.’ Now Kelly Link’s eagerly awaited new collection—her first for adult readers in a decade—proves indelibly that this bewitchingly original writer is among the finest we have.”

There’s Something I Want You to Do (Pantheon) av Charles Baxter kommer ut i februari. Samlingen består av 10 noveller, fem handlar om dygder, fem handlar om laster. Förlagets beskrivning: ”From one of the great masters of the contemporary short story, here is an astonishing collection that showcases Charles Baxter’s unique ability to unveil the remarkable in the seemingly inconsequential moments of an eerie yet familiar life.”

My Documents (McSweeney’s) av Alejandro Zambra kommer ut i februari. Skriver Garth Risk Hallberg på The Millions: ”‘Camilo’ was both the first thing I’d read by this young Chilean writer and one of the two or three best stories to run in The New Yorker last year. It appears alongside 10 other pieces in this collection, Zambra’s first book with McSweeney’s.”

Muse (Knopf) av Jonathan Galassi kommer ut i juni. Romaner om förlagsbranschen är svåra att motstå. Förlagets beskrivning: ”A sparkling fiction debut from the poet, translator, and FSG publisher that tells the story of the decades-long rivalry between two publishing lions over the work of an iconic female poet.”

Music for Wartime (Viking) av Rebecca Makkai kommer ut i juli. Det här är Makkais första novellsamling, men hon är verkligen inte obekant med formen. Förlagets beskrivning: ”Makkai has been anthologized four times in The Best American Short Stories as well as The Best American Nonrequired Reading. These wide-ranging and deeply moving stories—some inspired by her family history—will delight her many fans, as well as readers of Lorrie Moore, Jim Shepard, and Karen Russell.”

The State We’re In (Scribner) av Ann Beattie kommer ut i augusti. Det är inte utan anledning Beattie har kallats Amerikas Alice Munro. Förlagets beskrivning: ”Riveting, witty, sly, idiosyncratic, and bold, these stories describe a state of mind, a manner of being—now. A Beattie story, says Margaret Atwood, is ‘like a fresh bulletin from the front: we snatch it up, eager to know what’s happening out there on the edge of that shifting and dubious no-man’s-land known as interpersonal relations.’ The State We’reIn is a fearless exploration of contemporary life by a brilliant writer whose fiction startles as it illuminates.”